1. Organisation eligibility

(a) You must continue to be:

(i) a TEI, namely

A. a university

B. an ITP

C. a wānanga, or

(ii) a PTE, or

(iii) a state or state-integrated school.

(b) You must:

(i) have in place an effective assessment process for identifying each learner’s initial literacy and numeracy needs, and to measure their progress, using the most appropriate version of the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool (including Adult, Youth, Te Ata Hāpara and Starting Points, as appropriate), and

(ii) be able to offer an eligible programme of intensive literacy and numeracy provision as set out in paragraph 4, and

(ii) have adequate processes for reporting improvements of a learner’s literacy and numeracy skills, and

(iii) be quality assured by:

A. NZQA, if you are an ITP, PTE, or wānanga, or

B. the NZVCC, if you are a university, or

C. the Education Review Office, if you are a state or state-integrated school.

3. Verification of learner identity

You must verify the identity of each learner enrolled in a programme of study or training by doing one or more of the following:

(a) confirming that all data fields match the learner’s NSN, or

(b) receiving an assertion through the Department of Internal Affairs’ RealMe® online identity verification service, or

(c) sighting the original or certified copy of a current passport, or

(d) sighting the original or certified copy of one or more of the following documents:

(i) a birth certificate, or

(ii) a certificate of identity, or

(iii) a New Zealand certificate of citizenship, or

(iv) an expired passport that has not been cancelled, or

(v) a current New Zealand driver licence, or

(vi) a current New Zealand firearms licence, or

(e) if a learner is unable to obtain a birth certificate for the purposes of (d)(i) above, contacting us to confirm that a whakapapa statement signed by both the learner and a kaumātua is acceptable evidence of identity.

For the purposes of this condition a certified copy is a photocopy or scanned copy that has been endorsed as a true copy of the original. To be certified, the document must:

(a) be certified by an official of the issuing authority or a person authorised by law in New Zealand to certify documents, such as a Justice of the Peace, a lawyer or a court official (Court Registrar or Deputy Registrar), and

(b) have the official's signature on each page, with the name and title of the official shown clearly below his or her signature.

9. Reports

(i) a progress report for the period 1 January to 31 May no later than 10 working days after 31 May

(ii) a progress report for the period 1 January to 30 September no later than 8 working days after 30 September, and

(iii) a final report for the period 1 January to 31 December no later than 31 January of the following year.

(b) Each progress report and the final report must:

(i) be submitted in accordance with the template that we will provide to you, and

(ii) relate to the specific delivery commitments outlined in your Investment Plan, and

(iii) include the following information:

A. the number of learners enrolled in each ILN programme of study or training, and

B. learner enrolment information, including the NSN, tuition hours delivered (actual attendance) and remaining tuition hours planned (if any), demographic information, regional information, literacy and numeracy information, and the enrolment start and finish dates for each learner enrolled in each ILN programme of study or training during the period covered by the report.

11. Repayment of ILN funding

If you receive ILN funding that is greater than it should have been, or that you were not entitled to receive, you must treat the amount of the over-funding as a debt due to the Crown that:

(a) is repayable on demand, and

(b) may be set-off against all or any funding, or any sum of money payable by us to you.

For the purposes of this condition, we will determine whether you have received ILN funding that was greater than it should have been by subtracting the total number of tuition hours delivered in the calendar year (based on actual attendance) from the hours approved in Appendix 1 of your funding confirmation letter.

12. Suspension or revocation of ILN funding

If we suspend or revoke some or all of your ILN funding under section 159YG of the Education Act before some or all of that Funding has been used or contractually committed towards the purposes for which the funding was provided, you must treat the unexpended or uncommitted portion of the funding as debt due to the Crown that is:

(a) repayable on demand by us, and

(b) may be set-off against all or any funding, or any sum payable by us to you.